Very good point, but I *am* looking out three orders away from current capability. Yes, some jobs will be eliminated, however my contention is simple: You still need people to do physical things. That includes building and maintaining the machines that make the machines.

Look, I work in tech. There is zero chance that AI is going to "take over" tech en masse anytime soon. Yes it can do some amazing things, but it doesn't have the ability to look at structural issues, monitoring, maint etc, that haven't been defined and are curated by humans. That's too complex for it to deal with, and it has no creative ability to handle those multivariate problems.

If you ask it questions in this domain, it just reiterates BS from ITIL standards. None of that means anything in the real world. We don't even care about those, as they are just standards developed by documentation nerds that haven't ever built or maintained large scale compute environments. What it will do is eliminate code monkey jobs that are low and low-mid level. Ok, thats fine with me. Those folks have always made my job harder.

Secondly, I'm not impressed by prefab buildings. Seriously. I would contend that an assembly line run by people *could* be more efficient than one run by machines, once you take into account that machines require precise material types and dimensions. The moment you bring in variability, they fail.

This isn't as simple as everyone is making it out to be. I'm basically saying this is the identical case of "The factories are going to destroy everyone's livelihoods" argument. Im saying it won't do that.